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Hi Mark, many thanks for doing this AMA. I'm a young Australian journalist and I'd like my work to be seen as "good journalism".

I'm wondering: have you ever had to compromise your ideals or morals in order to publish a story? Or has there ever been a time when an editor or somebody else has told you that you need to change a story and if so how have you reacted?

In addition to this, in order to get work as a journalist there might be times when you have to cover stories you don't want to. What is your advice around this and is it necessary in order to do the stories you want?

This is a secondary question so I appreciate if you can't answer it, but what is your opinion of Edward Snowden's leaks of classified NSA documents?